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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN:
Juts taken some pic's to show you what some chrome looks like close up - it may look shinny after a polish - some times it can look a bit dull in place's - the stuff you use to polish or clean can do damage in way you can't see

surface rust is pin holes that let the metal rust and sit on the surface, and when you clean it, it will lokk shinny but you can still see the pin holes close up
Hairlines reflect light in different directions - so from a far it looks shinny and mirror like but close up you can see the lines left

different chrome/metals close up

pitting ~surface rust cleaned up




worn chrome showing where it has lost it's shine - you can't really polish it back up without taken off the chrome and going to bear metal




headtube on a mongoose - rough metal but chrome sticks to it and still can be shined up - rear gusset and rougher metal but has hairlines and marks




MX Caliper - shinny and mirror looking ~ but close up has marks and lines



Mirror polished stem - in certain light you can pick up the rainbow light reflecting in different angles




New shinny £2 coin - looks mint but close up you can see the knocks and dents - damage will only make it look dull in time




so you can see that using coke and tin foil will damage chrome and not do it well, showing scratches and lines, cos of the rust caught in the foil and as the foil gets harder and more crunched up will leave more lines and marks - using the right stuff will help make the chrome look better and give a better finish


hope this helps - cheers B  ;)

Jaymz:
Did you get a magnifying glass out of a cracker bendy  :LolLolLolLol:


Great pics fella, love the chrome ones, amazing how the rust comes through the scratches

GavinDavis:
Awesome stuff that! Real interesting to see it all so close....just out of interest, how close is it magnified?

garran:
thanks for that i will not be using coke and foil to remove my rust  cheers

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN:
It's just a 10x optical jewelers magnifier in front of my samsung NV10 - i did it all by hand, but i could have got them better if set up fo it and the camera would have been still enough for clear pic's

strange that when we look at the chrome and think it's nice and shinny, that in fact there are many a types of imperfection going on  ???

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